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crl-25669	Hadad, Shlomit; Aharony, Noa	Librarians and Academic Libraries’ Role in Promoting Open Access: What Needs to Change?	2024	15	.pdf	application/pdf	7568	356	41	In addition, the increasing costs of toll-access subscriptions, particularly via so-called ‘‘Big Deals’’ from publishers, forced libraries and other institutions to initiate large-scale subscription cancel- lations.25 As libraries make difficult budgetary decisions, the OA movement allows them to redefine their roles within this emerging publishing model.26 Further, with the develop- ment of OA, there has been an expectation that academic libraries will take on additional responsibilities like managing research data and open access requirements.27 As a result, OA promoters asked librarians to be the change leaders in their institutions,28 adding sug- gestions on how to promote OA publication among researchers and management.29 Studies have found that academic libraries promote OA in a variety of ways such as: including records for OA journals in their public catalogs and electronic journal lists, collaborating with their institutions to establish institutional repositories, participating in institutional initiatives to encourage faculties to deposit research outputs in the institution’s database and more.30 Thus, there is no budget left to OA journals: “Researchers contact us to request a budget for OA publication, but unfortunately, we have nothing to offer them” (L10).	cache/crl-25669.pdf	txt/crl-25669.txt